Appeal No. 96-3950
Application No. 08/131,056
Appellants respond (Reply Brief, pages 8 and 9) that the
commands mentioned in the cited passage in Dennis are not
analogous to the recited "image initialization commands". On
careful review of Appellants' arguments and Dennis, we are in
agreement with the Examiner on this particular point. Dennis
clearly provides for selection of operating modes (options 1,
2, or 3) by the host computer. In our view, the selection of
an operating mode in Dennis would necessarily involve a
command notification of the printer that a mode shift is about
to take place especially in view of the fact that Dennis
explicitly provides for the communication of status commands
from host to printer.
We are further in agreement with the Examiner that Dennis
meets the recited means for receiving of the aforementioned
initialization commands at the printer. As to this particular
feature, the Examiner has pointed to the resource scheduler
216 illustrated in Figure 2 of Dennis. While Appellants are
correct in their remarks at page 11 of the Reply Brief that
the passage in Dennis cited by the Examiner does not contain a
reference to the resource scheduler, it is clear from the
illustration in Figure 2 that commands from the host computer
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